Sun Feb 17, 2013 at 06:37:26 AM EST

Here are a few Virginia (and national) news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 17. Also, I hope to see everybody at the rally in DC to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (from hell).

But I'm very curious to know if Dems in Northern Virginia are working on getting a challenger to Del Bob Marshall...so far I haven't heard much. It would be a real shame and send a terrible message about our party to not seriously stand up to this guy in a district that was just made significantly more friendly to Democrats.

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